[Lady Blue]

Originally Posted by disney_mommy

I disagree that we are evolved omnivores. Personally, I think we began as carnivores, evolved into omnivores and will continue to evolve into herbivores. We began as carnivores. As we learned to grow fruits and vegetables, adding them into our diets, we evolved into omnivores. As meat has been declared absolutely unecessary for our health, we are well on the way to being herbivores. It is simply habit and selfishness that retains our omnivore ways. There are some of us who have already "evolved" into herbivores. We simply got there faster!

Actually, we of the genus homo, evolved to be the dominant and surviving species of hominids because of our brain power, and that, if I understand evolutionary science correctly, was a direct result of the protein gotten from meat in our diets, as opposed to the exclusive gathering lifestyle of the other hominids that we replaced.

As a species we are omnivores because our predecessors ate pretty much anything that didn't eat them first in order to survive. And survive they did, and flourished, and became the most dominant species on earth mainly because of (originally) what they ate. Because of that evolution our digestive systems can process pretty much any foodstuffs we choose, unlike many other animals who are specialists (like the Panda) and would become extinct if that one food source disappeared because they couldn't adapt.

Because of all this, we are now free to choose what foods we care to eat, what we like and don't like, for whatever reason we might have for deciding that particular way. Our history of being murderers of animals brought us to where we are, good or bad.

I could be wrong about all that, but that's how I learned it.